By Montford S.B. No. 1255
74R7491 JSA-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to tuition at public institutions of higher education.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 54.008, Education Code, is amended by
1-5 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-6 (e) The legislature in an appropriations act shall account
1-7 for the increase in revenue attributable to the annual statutory
1-8 tuition increases prescribed by Section 54.051(c)(2) in a way that
1-9 does not reduce the general revenue appropriations to that
1-10 institution.
1-11 SECTION 2. Section 54.051(c), Education Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 (c) Unless a different rate is specified by this section,
1-14 tuition for a resident student at a general academic teaching
1-15 institution is the greater of:
1-16 (1) $120 for each semester or 12-week summer session
1-17 and $60 for each six-week summer term; or
1-18 (2) $32 per semester credit hour plus, for an academic
1-19 year after the 1996-1997 academic year, an additional $2 per
1-20 semester credit hour increase over the tuition rate for the
1-21 preceding academic year.
1-22 SECTION 3. Section 54.064(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-23 read as follows:
1-24 (a) A student who holds a competitive academic scholarship
2-1 of at least $500 <$200> for the academic year or summer for which
2-2 the student is enrolled and who is either a nonresident or a
2-3 citizen of a country other than the United States of America is
2-4 entitled to pay the fees and charges required of Texas residents
2-5 without regard to the length of time the student has resided in
2-6 Texas. The student must compete with other students, including
2-7 Texas residents, for the academic scholarship and the scholarship
2-8 must be awarded by a scholarship committee officially recognized by
2-9 the administration and be approved by the Texas Higher Education
2-10 Coordinating Board under criteria developed by the board.
2-11 SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act to Section
2-12 54.064, Education Code, applies beginning with tuition charged for
2-13 the fall semester of 1995, except that a student awarded a
2-14 scholarship before September 1, 1995, for a semester or term of the
2-15 1995-1996 academic year that would have made the student eligible
2-16 to pay resident tuition under Section 54.064 as that section
2-17 existed on January 1, 1995, is covered by Section 54.064 as that
2-18 section existed on January 1, 1995, for each semester or term of
2-19 the 1995-1996 academic year for which the student receives the
2-20 scholarship.
2-21 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-26 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-27 passage, and it is so enacted.